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<h2>Movie information and user ratings from IMDB.com.</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>The internet movie database, <a href="http://imdb.com/">http://imdb.com/</a>, is a
website devoted to collecting movie data supplied by
studios and fans.  It claims to be the biggest movie
database on the web and is run by amazon.  More about
information imdb.com can be found online,
<a href="http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?about">http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?about</a>, including
information about the data collection process,
<a href="http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?infosource">http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?infosource</a>.
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 28819 rows and 24 variables</p>


<h3>Details</h3>


<p>Movies were selected for inclusion if they had a known
length and had been rated by at least one imdb user.  The
data set contains the following fields:
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 <ul>
<li><p> title.  Title of the movie.  </p>
</li>
<li><p> year.
Year of release.  </p>
</li>
<li><p> budget.  Total budget (if known)
in US dollars </p>
</li>
<li><p> length.  Length in minutes.  </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>rating.  Average IMDB user rating.  </p>
</li>
<li><p> votes.  Number
of IMDB users who rated this movie.  </p>
</li>
<li><p> r1-10.
Multiplying by ten gives percentile (to nearest 10%) of
users who rated this movie a 1.  </p>
</li>
<li><p> mpaa.  MPAA
rating.  </p>
</li>
<li><p> action, animation, comedy, drama,
documentary, romance, short.  Binary variables
representing if movie was classified as belonging to that
genre. </p>
</li></ul>



<h3>References</h3>


<p><a href="http://had.co.nz/data/movies/">http://had.co.nz/data/movies/</a>
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